Join us for the Launch of this new Apply Club in the Anthropology of Sustainability!

This Club brings together anthropologists and practitioners working across sectors to exchange ideas, resources and opportunities in the growing field of sustainability. In this Launch Event, we will discuss: What can anthropology do for sustainability? Sustainability has become a buzzword that refers to the need to mitigate our environmental impact and has led to various interpretations of how resources should be managed to ensure the well-being of future generations. Yet there is little consensus on what sustainability actually is, what it aims to achieve, and how it should be done. Anthropologists are uniquely placed to address sustainability in practice. In our Apply Club in Sustainability, we take a people-centred approach to sustainability to design holistic and meaningful solutions for people, the planet and prosperity for all. Topics of interest for the Club include: decarbonisation and energy transitions; post-growth; climate finance; sustainable consumption; circular economies and green jobs; sustainable development; CSR and ESGs.

Join this new community and join us for the launch event, which will feature a roundtable with three anthropologists working on energy, urban sustainability and climate finance, followed by a Q&A and a chance to meet and network with new members. We’d love to hear from you about your own interests in sustainability and events you’d like us to host in the future.

Speakers:

Nathalie Ortar is a Senior Researcher in anthropology at ENTPE University of Lyon in France, where she works on energy transitions and mobility justice. Recent books include: Cycling through the Pandemic (2024), Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life (2022), Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy (2021).

Aneil Tripathy is an Impact Fellow at MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC), where he works on climate finance. He is also an academic research consultant at the Climate Bonds Initiative, an investor-focused not-for-profit working to mobilise the global bond market for climate change solutions.

Saffron Woodcraft is Principal Research Fellow and Director of Social Policy at UCL’s Institute for Global Prosperity, where she works on prosperity and inequality in London through citizen social science. She is the Executive Lead for the Prosperity Co-Lab UK (ProCol UK), an initiative to develop action on shared prosperity for the UK.

Moderator / Club Leader:

Pauline Destrée is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Durham University, where she works on energy transitions and resource extraction in Ghana. She is the co-Director of the MSc programme in Sustainability, Energy & Development, and she is passionate about anthropology’s potential to inform sustainability.

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